Sync candidate/requisition data with Workday Recruiting via Workday's modern REST-based API
domain: recruiting · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Confirm your Workday tenant has the Recruiting REST API enabled and register an OAuth 2.0 client (client credentials or refresh-token flow) through Workday's API client management
Use the requisition operations to create, edit, close, freeze, or reopen both standard and evergreen (continuous) job requisitions
Use the candidate/applicant operations to create and retrieve candidate profiles (personal info, attachments, photos, assessments) and to push candidates from external sourcing tools/job boards into a requisition's pipeline
Use the applications/interviews/background-check operations to advance candidates through stages and keep interview and offer data synced between Workday and your ATS/CRM
Validate your integration against the specific Workday Recruiting REST API version your tenant runs, since operation coverage and fields shift between versions
Known gotchas
This REST API is distinct from the older Workday Staffing SOAP web services used for legacy integrations - don't assume feature parity; verify the specific operations you need actually exist in the REST surface for your tenant's release before committing
Despite being 'modern REST,' this remains an enterprise tenant-gated API, not a public self-serve API - it requires a live Workday customer tenant plus Workday-side integration/security configuration (integration system user, domain security policies) before any call succeeds
Field behavior and business processes (approval chains, requisition statuses) are heavily configured per tenant, so a payload or workflow that works in one customer's Workday instance may fail in another until you inspect that tenant's specific configuration
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